Oklahoma based youths Anti-Mortem's debut New Southern
delivers what I believe is something that is able to boost the band's
journey to fame. With power, emotion and a cracking heavy groove the
band encounters the hazards of being newcomers to the scene and with
Bob Marlette in the producer's seat, this is certainly no average outfit
that has recorded stuff in its basement and I assure you that this mission
won't be left hung out to dry.

The lead singer Larado Romo's mainly hoarse voice perhaps
isn't the positively greatest in the business, but at the same time
it's impassioned and it basically mirrors the songs' appearance at every
point. It's rather typical for modern heavy rock and on a small number
of times he applies his voice in a way that probably will make the listeners
associate to American radio rock. Don't you now believe that radio oriented
rock floods this release, because heavy and raw riffs are the outright
pillars that dominate this record almost all throughout.

I don't want this to come out too bittersweet, but this
effort is also frankly nothing that breaks ground or forges new territories
and if you just scratch the surface a little, you will find various
influences dated a few decades back. In contradiction I still have to
state that Anti-Mortem has yet somehow proven its flaming existence
and its own storming identity and this episode has more or less already
found a place to root. This heavy atmosphere sounds pretty fresh, it's
decidedly viable and also pulsating and heavy rocking in a way that
I find attractive.